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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Florence say the police do to black boys who are not in school?
(a) Arrest them.
(b) Drink with them.
(c) Fine them.
(d) Attack them.

2. Who calls the narrator as she plays music?
(a) An old friend.
(b) A bystander.
(c) A police officer.
(d) A neighbor.

3. What does the narrator tell Mr. Vercueil as he enters the kitchen?
(a) To have the woman leave.
(b) To give her her money back.
(c) To have the dog sleep outside.
(d) To pack and leave.

4. Where is the narrator's husband in Part One?
(a) In jail.
(b) Dead.
(c) With another woman.
(d) On a boat.

5. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?
(a) The vandalism.
(b) Stealing her piano.
(c) The burglars where white.
(d) The graffiti left on her sofa.

6. Who is the narrator addressing in this book?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

7. Who does the narrator find at the start of Part One?
(a) A homeless man.
(b) Her sister.
(c) A homeless woman.
(d) Her daughter.

8. Who does the narrator ask for help with her car problems?
(a) A mechanic.
(b) The homeless man.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) The neighbor.

9. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Fight with white students.
(b) Drive white people out of the township.
(c) Burn a police station.
(d) Burn their own school.

10. What was the narrator's profession before retiring?
(a) Housewife.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Dock worker.
(d) College professor.

11. What instrument does the narrator play?
(a) The guitar.
(b) Piano.
(c) The violin.
(d) The trombone.

12. Where does the narrator find Mr. Vercueil at the start of Part Two?
(a) Passed out on the kitchen floor.
(b) Drunk on the couch.
(c) In the rain.
(d) In his car.

13. What does Mr. Vercueil do with the little girls?
(a) Wets them with a hose.
(b) Yells at them.
(c) Tells them to go away.
(d) Plays with them.

14. What do Bheki and his friend crash into?
(a) A wall.
(b) A bay window.
(c) A plumber's car.
(d) A police car.

15. When does the narrator return to her house after her trip in town?
(a) Late afternoon.
(b) Early morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Late morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the housekeeper feel about the beating of Mr. Vercueil?

2. Where is the man that the narrator brings on her trip to town from?

3. What does Florence do with Bheki after the crash?

4. What do new contacts allow the narrator to experience?

5. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?

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